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The exciting adventures in public school, Sandhurst and his life as a soldier in India of Major George Cottar along with his escapades in the land of make-believe he finds and often goes into.The book includes: The Bridge-Builders; A Walking Delegate; The Ship That Found Herself; The Tomb Of His Ancestors; The Devil And The Deep Sea; William The Conqueror;.007; The Maltese Cat; Bread Upon The Waters; An Error In The Fourth Dimension; My Sunday At Home; and The Brushwood Boy.Joseph Rudyard Kipling was a British journalist, short story fictionist, poet, and novel writer.Rudyard’s writings comprise The Jungle Book, Kim, and several short fiction, such as The Man Who Would Be King. His poetry such as Mandalay, Gunga Din, The Gods of the Copybook Headings, The White Man’s Burden, and If—. He is considered as a leading originator in the creativity of short stories; his kiddie tales are classics of literature for the young, and one critic denoted his books as displaying “a versatile and luminous narrative gift”. Rudyard was among the very famous authors in the United Kingdom, in both literature and poetry, in the later part of 19th and first part of 20th centuries. Henry James stated: “Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known.” In 1907, at 42 years old, he got the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first English-language author to be awarded and its youngest awardee thus far. He was also probed into for the British Poet Laureateship and on many instances for a knighthood, both of which he refused.Rudyard’s following standing has transitioned in accordance with the political and social environment of those times and the consequential conflicting observations of him remained for most of the 20th century.
Product ID: 9781776742615
Sku: TG-1EI0-NSG9
